TY  - JOUR
TI  - Competitiveness of Small and Medium Businesses and Competitive Pressure in the Manufacturing Industry
T2  - Foresight and STI Governance
IS  - Foresight and STI Governance
KW  - firm competitiveness
KW  - competitive pressures
KW  - small and medium-sized enterprises
KW  - manufacturing
KW  - RuFIGE
AB  - In the paper, there is the relationship between internal competitiveness factors and the perception of Russian SMEs’ level of competitiveness pressures examined, based on a secondary analysis of the RuFIGE (Russian Enterprises in global economy) survey data obtained in 2014 by 1,677 Russian industrial small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It comes out that neither the high technological level, nor the introduction of the CRM system, nor the availability of external financing are sufficient for Russian manufacturing SMEs to feel competitive on the global market. From the other side, those manufacturing SMEs whose main competitors are domestic enterprises, do count neither the technological level nor the presence of a CRM system to be necessary factors of competitiveness. Further, there are different «weight categories» among Russian manufacturing SMEs. SME owners, who work only in local markets, are immune to competition from large foreign companies and consider Russian firms similar to their own as main competitors. Those who work on the whole Russian market feel a high competitive pressure from foreign manufacturers.
AU  - Aleksandr Kalita
AU  - Alexander Chepurenko
UR  - https://foresight-journal.hse.ru/en/2020-14-2/370912617.html
PY  - 2020
SP  - 36-50
VL  - 14